dr hab. Kinga Kiwała
Kinga Kiwała is a music theorist, M.A. in Philosophy, assistant professor in the Department of Musical Work Theory and Interpretation at the Academy of Music in Krakow. Her research interests centre upon contemporary Polish music, the problems of the sacred in music, the philosophy and aesthetics of music (especially phenomenology). Her studies are of interdisciplinary nature – the author focuses on presenting relations between music and word, music and philosophy, aesthetics, music and other arts. In 2013 she published a monograph, A Symphonic Work in the Perspective of Polish Phenomenological Concepts. Lutosławski, Górecki, Penderecki. In 2019 she published her habilitation thesis The Stalowa Wola Generation. Eugeniusz Knapik, Andrzej Krzanowski, Aleksander Lasoń. Aesthetic Studies. She participated in conferences and symposiums in Poland and abroad. Her output also includes several dozens of research articles.